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News Pakistan TV network back on air after government lifts emergency ban
Pakistan TV network back on air after government lifts emergency ban
Steve Czajkowski
January 21, 2008 02:04:00 pm

The most popular independent television network in Pakistan, Geo-TV , resumed on-air broadcasting Monday after the government lifted a ban imposed during the declaration of emergency rule issued by President Pervez Musharraf in...

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News Canada to remove US from list of states where prisoners risk torture
Canada to remove US from list of states where prisoners risk torture
Steve Czajkowski
January 19, 2008 03:05:00 pm

Canadian Foreign Minster Maxime Bernier said Saturday that the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade will remove the US from an internal document that lists countries that employ interrogation methods that amount to torture [JURIST...

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News Canadian terror suspect gets life sentence for US embassy bomb plot
Canadian terror suspect gets life sentence for US embassy bomb plot
Steve Czajkowski
January 18, 2008 04:47:00 pm

A US federal judge on Friday sentenced Mohamed Mansour Jabarah to life in prison for plotting to bomb US embassies in Singapore and the Philippines . Jabarah, a Canadian citizen of Iraqi descent, pleaded guilty...

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News Switzerland suspends Abu Omar CIA rendition investigation
Switzerland suspends Abu Omar CIA rendition investigation
Steve Czajkowski
January 18, 2008 03:18:00 pm

Switzerland has suspended an investigation into US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents allegedly involved in the 2003 abduction and rendition of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr , a spokesperson from the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's...

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News No UN Hariri-style probe of Bhutto assassination: Musharraf
No UN Hariri-style probe of Bhutto assassination: Musharraf
Steve Czajkowski
January 12, 2008 03:05:00 pm

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf ruled out the possibility of a United Nations investigation into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in an interview with a French newspaper published Friday. He told...

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News INTERPOL chief to be charged with corruption in South Africa
INTERPOL chief to be charged with corruption in South Africa
Steve Czajkowski
January 11, 2008 04:19:00 pm

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) of South Africa will charge Jackie Selebi , chief of the South African Police Services (SAPS) and President of INTERPOL , with corruption and defeating the course of...

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News Anti-Guantanamo protesters arrested at US Supreme Court
Anti-Guantanamo protesters arrested at US Supreme Court
Steve Czajkowski
January 11, 2008 03:02:00 pm

Seventy-one people were arrested at the US Supreme Court Friday during a protest calling for the closing of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba . Protesters were arrested inside and outside the building...

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News Retired Bosnian Serb general charged with war crimes for Tuzla shelling
Retired Bosnian Serb general charged with war crimes for Tuzla shelling
Steve Czajkowski
January 4, 2008 06:03:00 pm

Retired Bosnian Serb general Novack Djukic was indicted Friday by the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina for allegedly ordering a 1995 attack on the town of Tuzla in...

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News Italy prosecutor to appeal dismissal of murder charge against US soldier
Italy prosecutor to appeal dismissal of murder charge against US soldier
Steve Czajkowski
January 4, 2008 04:58:00 pm

Italian prosecutor Franco Ionta said Friday that he would "almost certainly" appeal a Rome court's October 2007 dismissal of a criminal case against US Army Spc. Mario Lozano for the murder of Italian intelligence agent...

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News Oklahoma immigration law facing new court challenge
Oklahoma immigration law facing new court challenge
Steve Czajkowski
January 4, 2008 01:12:00 pm

Lawyers for an Oklahoma man filed a taxpayer lawsuit Thursday seeking to overturn a state immigration law as an alleged violation of the state constitution. The Oklahoma Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act of 2007 [HB 1804 text,...

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President Lincoln signed first US federal income tax act

On July 1, 1862, the Tax Act of 1862 was passed and signed by President Lincoln, establishing a 3% federal tax on income above $600 and a 5% tax on income above $10,000.

Compliance with the act was poor, even though there were needs for the Civil War. After the war the act was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Review a brief history of the US income tax from the Library of Congress.

UK returns Hong Kong to China

On July 1, 1997, the United Kingdom returned Hong Kong to China at the conclusion of a 99-year lease. The foundation for the transfer of power was set in December of 1984, when China and UK signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong. The Declaration affirmed the handover of Hong Kong along with governing principles. Most significantly, the Chinese agreed not to impose their socialist system on Hong Kong.

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